To:G. D. LEITEISEN[2]

Published:Sent from Loguivy (Northern coast of France) to Paris.

      Printed from the original.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,1974,

      Moscow,Volume 34,

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July 24, 1902

Mysister’s address is: Mme Elizaroff.Loguivy(par
Ploubazianec), Côtes du Nord. Anya and Mother really do not like it here very
much and they may go to some other place—they don’t know where yet
(you can address your letterExpédition).I am going home tomorrow. I
liked it here very much on the whole and have had a good rest, only
unfortunately I was a bit premature in imagining myself well again, forgot about
dieting and now am again having trouble with catarrh. Well, all that is of no
consequence.

Areyou going to stay long in that country of yours? It would be a good thing if
you were to combine the pleasant with the useful (your job) and take a good long
holiday. Drop me a line about yourself when you return.

Howdo you like the result of the negotiations with L. Gr. and Yuriev? Did you
reach full agreement and do you now hope for better results?

Thereis good news from Russia of the committees making a turn towardsIskra, even that ofSt. Petersburg(sic!). Here Is a curious
little example. They sent a pamphlet toRabocheye Dyelo. There is a
note there (on p. 9—we have been told exactly!) reading: “See
Lenin’s excellent
book.”[1]The Unionists here raised the alarm, and wrote
to St. Peters burg: be so good as to delete it, you are hitting both your self
and us by it. Reply: don’t hinder us from putting matters on a new
footing, but give the pamphlet toIskra.

Thisisentre nous, of course, for the time being. But it is
characteristic!

Idon’t know whether St. Petersburg will maintain its
new position.

Allthe very best.Yours,Lenin

Writeto me in London.

P.S.I almost forgot.Socialistenotified me that my subscription
expired in December 1901. Is that so? Haven’t they made a mistake? I
remember your going there once with Yurdanov’s card. Didn’t you keep
some document, or do you remember without it?

[1]WhatIs To Be Done? (See present edition,
  Vol. 5).—Ed.

[2]Leiteisen,Gavriil Davidovich(1874-1919)—a Social-Democrat,
contributor toIskraandZarya. Started revolutionary
activities in the nineties; at the beginning of the twentieth century
emigrated abroad, where be joined the Emancipation of Labour group and then
became a member of the Union of Russian Social-Democrats Abroad. After the
Second Congress of the R.S.D.L.P. joined the Bolsheviks, and contributed to
the newspapersVperyod,Proletaryand other Bolshevik
organs. p. 106